[AI DAILY NEWS RUNDOWN] Open AI Guardrails Obliterated, Hassabis Warns of 2029 AGI, and the Pope’s Manifesto (May 26, 2026)

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Summary: In today’s briefing, we analyze the critical fragmentation of AI alignment and control. We investigate how tools like "Heretic" are stripping safety guardrails from open-source frontier models in minutes, allowing access to dangerous bioweapon information. We explore Demis Hassabis's urgent warnings regarding an accelerated 2029 AGI timeline fueled by recursive coding productivity. We deconstruct Pope Leo XIV’s historic encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which tackles corporate tech monopolies and autonomous warfare. Finally, we look at the financial realities of "tokenmaxxing" at Uber, China's new travel restrictions on premier AI researchers, and Google's incoming smart glasses strategy.

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Important Topics:

• Open-Source AI Decensored in Minutes: The Financial Times reveals that the GitHub tool "Heretic" can completely bypass guardrails on models like Llama 3.3 and Gemma 3 using four lines of code, leaving them wide open to malicious queries.
• Hassabis Issues AGI Singularity Warning: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shifts his central target for Artificial General Intelligence closer to 2029, calling current agent deployments a "societal practice run" for self-improving systems.
• The Vatican’s Verdict on AI Monopolies: Pope Leo XIV releases a 42,000-word encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, explicitly calling to "disarm AI," outlaw autonomous lethal weapons, and strip private transnational corporations of digital sovereignty.
• Uber Challenges "Tokenmaxxing" Costs: Uber COO Andrew Macdonald warns that massive corporate expenditures on AI tokens are becoming difficult to justify without clear, proportional feature gains for consumers.
• Google's Smart Glasses Roadmap: Google reveals its partnership with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster for an audio-first smart glasses line launching this fall, offloading processing directly to user smartphones.
• China Restricts AI Talent Travel: Beijing implements strict permission rules blocking top researchers at firms like Alibaba and DeepSeek from traveling abroad to protect domestic IP and prevent poaching.
• EU Prepares Massive Google Fine: Under the Digital Markets Act, European regula